The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-09-30
Ladies' Department.
New York Fashions.
SMALL GIRLS DRESSES.

Ladies' cloth is used for small
girls winter dresses, white, pale,
rose, salmon, ecru, or sky blue
cloths are for their dressy frocks,
while the darker Gobelin blues. cop
per, scarlet, and blue greens are for
general wear. White cloth frocks
for girls from six to twelve years of
age, to wear with guimpes. are made
with a full straight skirt pinked
around the edges, and round waist
half low in the neck, with pinked
edges going up the fronts, over the
shoulders, and down the back, dis
closing V-shaped low yoke of green
velyet sleeves reach only to the ell
bow. The fall skirt is side pleated
in front and gathered behind, and
consists of two whole breadths of
cloth (for large girls dresses) pink
ed in scallops around the bottom,
with two other scalloped bands
set beneath show three pinked
edges. The round waist has a green
velvet cord where the skirt is sewed
on and is buttoned behind with
small velvet covered button moulds,
or else with thick round pearl but
tons. Similar dresses of pale blue
cloth have gold brown velvet yoke
and sleeves; red cloth has black vel
vet accessories; sage green cloth has
white velvet.
Pretty guimpes to wear with low
waists are made with puff gathered
to the high standing collar, and the
lower edge gathered out of sight be
low the round neck Of the dress. The
sleeves are tucked lengthwise at the
top to make them fiat under the
short dress sleeves, and form sing
lie puff below the elbow, being gath
cred into wristband. These guimpes
may be made of nainsook or of white
India silk, or else of surah. In silk
guimpes the puff is sometimes doub-
led, making two smaller putfs around
below the collar. Such guimpes are
also made of colored surah, aud may
be permanently set in the dress. One
or two rows of feather stitching on
the collar and cuffs is sufficient trim.
ming. ....
CASHMERE FRoCKs WITH GUIMES.
Cashmere remains the favorite for
the guimpe dresses of girls from
three to ten years of age, and its
trimmings are braid or velvet of
contrasting colors. For very warm
looking dresses there are large fancy
plaids and gay stripes in thick soft
twills and in some heavy. roughly
finished cloths. The dark scarlet,
old.rose, blue, and brown cashmere
frocks are made with round or point
ed waists, with short puffed sleeves,
and full skirt. The neck is half high
straight across the back, rounding
in front, and is trimmed with velvet
an inch and half wide, cut out to
follow the outline of the neck. then
pass down the front in two rows. and
extend around the waist as belt;
the fronts are left open between the
two rows of velvet, small eyelet.holes
are wrought there, and the edges are
laced closely with tiny silk lacing
cord, or else with soutache braid.
The waist buttons behind, and has
no side forms. the only seams being
those under the arms and on the
shoulders; it is lined with silesia.
The short sleeves are full puff
gathered to velvet band, and are
lined with stiff muslin; then tapes
are tied on the wrong side to keep
the puff well rounded out, The skirt
of two breadths of cashmere is gath
cred or shirred in two or three rows,
and is simply hemmed.
Such dress is lovely made Of
old-rose or strawberry cashmere
with moss green velvet trimming, al
so of Gobelin blue cashmere trim
med with copper or mahogany red
velvet. When braid is used it is
laid on the waist in curved pattern
on cashmere band shaped like the
velvet just described. 1t may also
be placed in two rows down the
front of the skirt, where four pleats
are pressed fat it's whole length
two pleats meeting two others; three
eighths of yard of cashmere are
added in the front of the skirt to
form these pleats. Scarlet cashmere
trocks are trimmed with black braid
in snail like curves. while dark blue
cashmeres have either red or blue
braid in tiny Greek keys. The
waists of these dresses are short, vel
not too short; the skirts can scarce
ly be to full, often measuring tire,
yards in width. Girls of FIVE wear,
wear skirts long enough to fall half
way between the knees and ankles
which is considered medium length
as older girls wear shorter skirts
falling just below the knees, while
those under five years wear them al
most down to the ankles.
HIGH-NECKED WOOL DRESSES.